Fieldfisher

Dispute Resolution

Partner

Priyanka specialises in commercial, civil fraud and white-collar crime disputes, and act and advise on a variety of complex, cross-border, multi-jurisdictional disputes and investigations.

With extensive experience in banking and financial services sector, Priyanka acts for a number of leading international banks and financial institutions on a wide range of banking, civil fraud and asset recovery, commercial and regulatory disputes. She also regularly represents state and private entities in litigation before the English Court, and in arbitration in a broad range of commercial disputes across industry sectors. Priyanka is often instructed in disputes with an Asian, Middle Eastern or African link, with proceedings in the UK, India, Singapore, Dubai, Europe and the US.

Priyanka is recognised in leading legal directories across all my practice areas - Commercial Litigation: Premium, Banking Litigation: Investment and Retail, Fraud: White Collar-Crime,  Fraud: Civil, and Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime.

Priyanka has led multijurisdictional investigations and was involved in some of the most complex and sensitive investigations in the banking sector in Asia. I have also been involved in several high-profile investigations involving high-ranking officials of state-owned entities and global financial institutions in Asia and MENA region.

Priyanka has particular experience of engaging with regulators in matters involving sanctions. She advises on a range of issues including challenging sanctions, licences, impact of asset freeze, ownership and nexus issues, jurisdictional scope and sectoral sanctions, and the termination of contracts with sanctioned parties.

Priyanka's clients are sovereign agencies, state-owned companies, global banks and financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies and UHNIs clients from a wide range of geographies and industry sectors.